Sentences with phrase «little better every year»

I don't think they are willing to give up any kind of asset for a chance to be a little better this year with no promise he will resign with a crummy team.

Now that i'm in my new role at work & on a mission to get back into gear health wise, my work wardrobe is something I want to step up a notch and maintain a little better this year.

All the innovations, apps, hacks, habits, gadgets, and robovacuums that made our lives a little better this year.

The best - of - the - best got a little better this year with faster A9 chip, better camera and 3DTouch.

I did a little better this year, but with my husband being a worship leader he has a pretty full schedule around this time of year.

Not exact matches

Government attempts to ease prices — including a 20 percent provincial tax on foreign buyers, a city tax on empty homes, as well as stricter federal mortgage rules — have made little difference: prices are up 16 percent in the past year.

And the fact that it takes a little while to get to know how each other works best - that's normal, I've been working with new business relationships for many years.

A little proactive maintenance will help ensure your LLC or corporation remains in good standing and continues to shield your personal assets for years to come.

The company sold two million in just 24 hours, besting the previous record set last year by a little company named Apple, when it sold one million units of the iPhone 4S.

«When I was 22 years old, a guy who owned a little bodega in my neighborhood told me, «If you really want to start a company, you better dig under your couch for a couple of extra dollars, stop going out to dinner four times a month, trade in your car for a cheaper one, and raise that $ 40,000 or $ 30,000, if you can, by yourself.»»

After years of dominating the connected speaker market — for good reason — Sonos seemed to be falling a little behind.

Little do these skeptics, who rain on the home business owner's parade, know is that the number of people working from home, and making very good annual incomes, has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years.

He has been doing it for 21 years and says, «I was a little nervous, but it went well.»

«We started saving for them years ago like good little planners, but apparently it wasn't enough,» says the 56 - year - old.

Since then lithium ion batteries have become a little bit better and cheaper every year, but the improvements are diminishing.

As Canadian Business found out when it conducted this year's reputation survey, people generally believe that RIM is an innovative, well run company, but they have little emotional connection to the brand itself.

«I think one of the things that this team is lacking that hurts them the most is not having the true leaders like we had last year and guys that, when things go bad... I feel like when things go bad, this team struggles a little with bouncing back and making good plays.»

Over 40 years of launching new products and services, we have striven to listen very carefully to what our customers think they want and then set about giving them something that is often very different, but always a little better.

Studies show that as little as five minutes of exercise a day can be beneficial in reducing stress and adding years to your lifespan, but 10 minutes is even better.

Moody's studied 37 oil and gas companies in Canada and the U.S., concluding that although the oil industry has dramatically slashed its cost of production in the past three years and is currently in the midst of posting much better financials this year, there is little room left for more progress.

It may sound a little nerdy, but one of my favorite parts of gearing up for the new year is deciding which conferences will be the best use of my time.

This documentary made by the late Sydney Pollack looks at the little - known two - night live recordings Aretha Franklin did with LA's New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in 1972 for her best - selling album «Amazing Grace,» which was released the same year.

Hela is one of the better villains in the MCU, with proper motives (I'd be mad, too, if I were imprisoned for hundreds of years and kept a secret by my own father), so it's a little sad to see her go.

But that result is actually a little bit better than what happened during the fourth quarter of last year when the economy shrank 6.3 percent.

Everyone wants to be more global, to infuse ethics and integrity into the curriculum, to teach students to be more entrepreneurial and innovative, and to put more of a challenge into MBA programs that, at some places, have become little more than a two - year search for a better job.

Though little known in the Canadian industry, her elevation to country CEO made sense because of her background: 17 years in supermarkets prepared her well to guide Walmart's food expansion, as did her Sam's experience with so - called combination stores that stock both food and general merchandise.

But if average inflation were to more than double to 4 % over the next 30 years, a renter who put in the equivalent of a downpayment as well as annual principal payments into the stock market instead of toward a house would end up a little more than $ 415,000 richer 30 years later than someone who bought, even after factoring in the cost of renting.

Some think last year may have been a bottoming out, but with the amazing continued growth of smartphones and tablets, there's little doubt it's a commoditized business that is already well past its best days.

Over the years there have been plenty of times when it seemed to me that everyone else's business was so much better than mine and not just a little better, but better in every way imaginable.

The holiday season is supposed to be about getting together with loved ones, indulging in good food and drink, and finding a some time to kick back a little and reflect on the year that's passed.

«The international markets may remain a little challenging for the balance of this calendar year, and perhaps into 2016, but our foundations are solid and I feel very very good about our positioning today.»

World stock markets hovered close to all - time highs on Monday as the best start to a year in eight years showed little sign of running out of steam.

Little did I know that some of my best memories from freshman year would come from the times spent in my own and my friends» rooms.

It has been close to a year since the Department finalized the Fiduciary Rule and PTEs, and now with the additional extension of the applicability date contained in this final rule, there is little basis for concluding that advisers need still more time before they will be ready to give advice that is in the best interest of retirement investors and free from material misrepresentations in exchange for reasonable compensation.

In The International Living Guide to Retiring Overseas on a Budget, published by Wiley, Haskins and Prescher provide a step - by - step roadmap to finding the world's best communities for English - speaking retirees seeking a happier, healthier, more affordable life in some of the world's most beautiful and accommodating destinations... often on as little as $ 25,000 a year or less.

In an effort to build its relevance to the world outside traditional «Davos man» — the slightly scornful phrase used by political scientist Samuel Huntington to describe attendees, this year's World Economic Forum meeting in Switzerland is pushing to be a little more touchy - feely, for want of a better word.

And so when I read Ben Graham, sort of a light bulb went off just this little article and I started reading everything I could about what he had written, both security analysis and the intelligent investor, and eventually led my way to Warren Buffett and you know, sort of the rest is history, it's a very good age, you know I was younger than 21 at the time you know junior year of college to recognize that this was what I was going to be doing the rest my life.

«It's tough to look at a full year of losses on Amazon (+56 %), athenahealth (+26 %), Netflix (+55 %) and Tesla (+46 %) when we believe all those stocks appeared priced with little margin for error entering the year, and none executed well or met fundamental expectations in 2017,» he wrote.

This takes a little bit of time and is more imprecise, but if there are a lot of pings over the course of a year from the same IP address in the city that matches your competitor's corporate office address, then there's a good chance it's from someone from their office checking out your website.

Get to know George and Henry a little bit better below as we sat down with them for a quick chat last weekend: George Jecminek George started playing tennis at 5 years old in Czech Republic and moved to Vancouver in 1996.

The good news is that each bear has typically lasted a little over a year and stocks have always recovered, historically, and gone on to make significant gains.

If you'd guessed that the S&P would go up 9 % for the year — its historic average — you'd have been a little better off than listening to their predictions.

A little over 2 years ago I started selling courses online because I thought it was a good idea.

A little more than half (51 percent) think that actions taken by the new president and Congress next year will make their businesses better off, 17 percent think their businesses will be worse off and 26 percent think the actions will have no effect.

This system has worked fairly well for the past 20 years: the inflation - targeting mandate kept getting renewed and there was little reason to change it.

The yellow metal ended the year up a little more than 13 percent — its best year since 2010 — while gold stocks, as measured by the NYSE Arca Gold Miners Index, gained more than 11 percent.

John Anthony Signals has been in existence for a little over a year now and claims to be the best signal provider in the market.

This is when people poured thousands of dollars to start their companies, such as Laundromats, store fronts etc; But if you really look at this scenario, maybe about the 5 % who did make it past the first five years, 3 of them were struggling just to pay rent and stay alive, 1 was doing a little bit better than the others, and the other 1 was doing exceptional.

The Canadian numbers are a little better, but nowhere in North America have median incomes doubled over the last ten years.

«We did see a little slow down but I think it shows the success of small brewers in recent years and that we can question whether double - digit growth is a good thing or a bad thing,» he added.